In fact, right now I’d like to push for some creative destruction here in blogdom. Let’s all chant “FUCK THIS BLOG! FUCK THIS BLOG!” And yet while doing this I’d like to treat all of you bloggers I encounter as brothers and sisters in need of liberation and life just like me.

Now as I leave I’d just like to say one last thing – if you strike me I promise not to strike back. After all, you poor bastards are enslaved to the death dealing ways of blog culture.

Peace.

If you’re lending me a personal copy, no problem, it’ll get back to you sooner rather than later. I’ll assume Nathan knows how I can get it back to you.

I don’t have a particular ax to grind about the Olympics but the disconnect to me is related to the “economics of death”. Besides the poor Georgian luger, who has died? When Christians talk about the culture of death it is easy to see who has died, 100s of millions of babies. But “economics of death”? That is a play on the term “culture of death”, and yet it is hallow. Who is dying? Who did TD Bank kill that they deserve to have their windows smashed? And for that matter, just because RBC is behind the oil sands, why is that so bad? If it weren’t for oil, you poor folks would have to walk everywhere you go. That’s fine if you live in some African country where it is warm all the time, but some of them work 18 hours a day carrying firewood on small carts for $3 a day. I’d much rather burn oil sands in my Toyota than die at 38 of exhaustion in that kind of misery. But walking everywhere you go is not really an option for living in Canada, particularly in winter.

What are the protesters doing to create life. Anyone can smash a window. The thief comes to steal and kill and destroy. Vandalism is theft by destruction. That is not what Jesus did. He overturned the tables to prevent the money changers from stealing from the people of God and thus charging them to worship God which they had no right to do.

Finally, the poster refers to destroying the structures of the economics of death, forewarned that others who have done this (communists around the world) have created misery. Yet Canada is one of the greatest countries in the world and the envy of many millions who long to have an opportunity to come here to live, to study and to raise their families. Yet all the protesters, the poster, and Poser can think about is how to destroy what other people envy. Is that not a sign of their own envy? There is something deeply wrong with that. TD Bank, by employing thousands of people, by extending mortgages to allow young couples to buy their first house, and by providing a safe place where people can put their investments, has done more to promote the welfare of the many than these sad anarchists. That is why I am a proud, bourgeois Christian stockholder of TD.

“In order to construct a society that is more just, less just ways of organizing life together must be destructed. This should be obvious.” This is an extremely scary prospect. When people who hold such views have succeeded only misery results. Please name one case where death was not the result of destruction of capitalism. 100,000,000 people were killed by communists in 20th century alone. Is that not enough?

Signed, an investor in oil sands and Latin American mines, shopper at the Bay, a proud-soon-to-be Canadian, Bourgeois Christian, who owns more than one pair of shoes.

The Temple was supposed to be a house of prayer for *the nations*, and the only place that Gentiles could pray according to Torah was in the outer court. But that’s exactly where the sellers were doing all their noisy selling, making God’s intentions impossible.

In a way, it is an expression of the exclusivistic “nationalism” Jesus is confronting throughout the gospels, I guess, insofar as it showed no concern for Israel’s calling to be a light to the Gentiles, etc.

Like has been noted already, the NYSE most certainly *is* a religious venue.